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Bible Studies on Creation.
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Christian Education
Lesson 1—Education and Life
JULY 3, 1920
Daily Study Outline
1.
Why the earth was created
2.
First inhabitants of the earth
3.
The trees in the garden
4.
Danger of miring good and evil
5.
Life in the Word
6.
Christian education and Christian living
7.
Review
the lesson.
Ques. 1, 2
Ques. 3-5
Ques. 6-8
Ques. 9-11
Ques. 12, 13
Ques. 14-17
Questions
1.
Why did the Lord create the earth? Rev. 4: 11.
2.
What shows the Lord's pleasure in His work in each
step of creation? Gen.
1:
4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31; Ex. 31: 17.
3.
For what purpose did God form the earth? Isa. 45: 18;
Gen.
1:
28, first part.
4.
Where did He put the man He had formed? Gen. 2: 8.
5.
Who was associated with him in this home? Verses
18, 21, 22.
6.
Mention two properties of the trees that grew in the
garden. Verse 9, first part.
7.
What two particular trees are mentioned? Verse 9,
last part.
8.
What was the essential difference in partaking of these
two trees? Verses 16, 17.
Answer:
Partaking of one would
perpetuate life; partaking of the other would bring death.
9.
What subtle danger lies in the pursuit of knowledge?
Answer:
The mixture of good and evil. See Gen. 3: 5.
10.
What is an important means of safety?
Answer:
To
come out from among those who pursue mixed knowledge.
2 Cor. 6: 17.
11.
After they ate from the tree of mixed knowledge, why
was it necessary to drive the Eden pair from the garden?
Gen. 3:22.
12.
In what essential way did Adam, and do we, still have
access to the tree of life? Matt. 4: 4.
Answer:
Through
the promises of God.
"So with all the promises of God's Word. In them He is
speaking to us individually, .speaking as directly as if we
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could listen to His voice. It is in these promises that Christ
communicates to us His grace and power. They are leaves
from that tree which is 'for the healing of the nations' [Rev.
22:
2]."—"Ministry of Healing," page 122.
13.
What determines what a man is? Prov. 23: 7.
14.
What kind of things should be our study in Christian
life and therefore in Christian education? Phil. 4: 8.
15.
Is there any real difference between the principles of
Christian living and the principles of Christian education?
16.
On what basis should our choice in both be made?
Deut. 30: 19.
17.
What will be the result if we continually choose right
in all we read and study as well as in all we do? Verse 20.
Lessons We Can Learn
1.
God created this world as an expression of His pleasure
—more exactly, His will, though the two are in perfect har-
mony. Whatever God wills, or whatever is a pleasure to Him,
is not only right but greatly to be desired. Some development
of the universe was in God's mind when He created the earth,
with its inhabitants. In fact, He created it with the very
purpose that it should be inhabited. The particular aim in
His will and pleasure was the creation of man.
2.
Not until everything for man's necessity and pleasure
had been prepared was man himself created—with just the
one exception that no one of his kind was provided as a com-
panion. The reason for this exception was clearly God's pur-
pose to take the woman out of man, that he might ever regard
and treat her as part of himself. God would make sure that
man should not only love his neighbor as himself, but in the
very nature of things, love his wife as himself.
3.
To the pair was given a garden as a home. For them,
a home was to be a place where they could live, have occupa-
tion, and grow in the knowledge of God—that is, grow more
Godlike. In this way would God add to the expression of
His glory. "I have created him for My glory." Isa. 43: 7.
4.
The trees in the garden had two properties: "pleasant
to the sight" and "good for food." Food was a necessity, but
the higher nature was also to be cultivated. Beauty and
strength are both elements of character. Man was to enjoy
both the fruit and the beauty of the tree; for this was closely
akin to God's pleasure, and every provision was made for
man to be Godlike.
5.
Two particular trees were planted in the garden as a
test for the fidelity of the creature to his Creator. Man was
not to be a mere automaton in relation to his Maker, but
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should have opportunity for the exercise of his free will in
choosing to be or not to be true to God. The test was made
perfectly clear to him. By partaking of the tree of life, he
would live; by partaking of the tree of knowledge of good
and evil, he would die. Like the angels, he was placed on
probation. This test was all the more necessary because re-
bellion had broken out in heaven, and a rebel leader challenged
the justice of God; hence God would not impose His will arbi-
trarily upon any of His creatures, but give them liberty of
choice, with the consequences clearly before them.
6.
In the two trees of the garden is symbolized a founda-
tion principle in Christian education:
Choose "life and good";
shun
"death and evil." (Deut. 30: 15.) Reduced to educa-
tional practice, this means: Choose studies in which the good
is unmixed with evil; shun studies in which there is evil un-
mixed, or mixed with good. It was not the Creator's purpose
that man should obtain
any
knowledge of evil; but by par-
taking of the forbidden tree, he would gain a knowledge of
good
and
evil. In the temptation of Eve, Satan pointed out
only the good; but the evil was there. At first, when she
partook, Eve felt the thrill of only the good; but almost im-
mediately the terrible reality of the evil settled down upon
her. Good is open and easy to identify; evil is hidden, subtle,
and deceptive.
7.
CoNcLusioN: (a) In God's original plan, there was no
separation between education and life. They were insepa-
rable. The very purpose of forming man in the image of
God, of giving him life, of clothing him with Godlike powers,
and of placing him in a perfect environment, was that his
powers might constantly unfold in Godlikeness. This
is
edu-
cation, it is true education, it is Christian education. Educa-
tion is the
business
of life. The business of true education
in this present life is to prepare ourselves and others for the
life which is to come.
(b)
The best way to enrich life in the school of to-day,
and cause it to unfold in harmony with God's plan, is to study
only things of the following order: whatsoever things are
true,
are
honest,
are
just,
are
pure,
are
lovely,
are of
good
report;
then
"think
on
these
things." Phil. 4: 8.
"Every member of the church a member of the Sab-
bath school, and every member of the Sabbath school
a member of the Lord's family."
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Lesson 2—The Eden School.
JULY 10, 1920
Daily Study Outline
1.
God's estimate of His created works
2.
Man in the image of God
3.
Provision for man's education
4.
Means of instructing man
5.
Eden school a model
6.
Not too late to follow this model
7.
Review the lesson.
Ques. 1-3
Ques. 4-7
Ques. 8
Ques. 9-13
Ques. 14
Ques. 15,16
Questions
1. By what means did God create the earth? Ps. 33: 6, 9.
2. Mention some examples of creation by His word. Gen.
1: 3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 24.
3. What did God say about the creation of man? Verse
26, first part.
4. What image did man originally bear? Verse 27; 1 Cor.
11: 7. "When Adam came from the Creator's hand, he bore,
in his physical, mental, and spiritual nature, a likeness to
his Maker."—"Education,"
page
15.
5. What was God's purpose concerning this "image and
glory"?
Answer:
"It was His purpose that the longer man
lived, the more fully he should reveal this image,—the more
fully reflect the glory of the Creator."—"Education,"
page 15.
6. Where else was found a similar glory? Ps. 19: 1, 2;
Hab. 3: 3.
7. How did the Lord commune with Adam and Eve? Gen.
2: 16; 3: 8 onward.
8. In school terms, how may it be said that God provided
for education at the beginning?
Answer:
"The Garden of
Eden was the schoolroom, nature was the lesson book, the
Creator Himself was the instructor, and the parents of the
human family were the students."—"Education,"
page 20.
9. What was the first reading lesson of which we have
record? Gen. 2: 19, 20.
10. In a similar way, how did Adam discern the thought
of God when his "helpmeet" was brought to him? Verse 23;
Gen. 3:20.
11. In general, how did Adam and Eve read the thought
of God?
Answer:
"In their original perfection, all created
things were an expression of the thought of God. To Adam
and Eve in their Eden home, nature was full of the knowl-
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edge of God, teeming with divine instruction. Wisdom spoke
to the eye, and was received into the heart; for they com-
muned with God in His created
works."—"Christ's Object
Lessons," page 18.
12.
In what two ways did God 'evidently instruct the
dwellers in Eden?
Answer:
By His word and through His
works.
13.
By what further means did they gain practical knowl-
edge? Gen. 2: 5, last part, and verse 15.
14.
In God's purpose, what was the Garden of Eden to be?
Answer:
"The Garden of Eden was a representation of what
God desired the whole earth to become, and it was His pur-
pose that, as the human family increased in numbers, they
should establish other homes and schools like the one He had
given. Thus in course of time the whole earth might be oc-
cupied with homes and schools where the words and the works
of God should be studied, and where the students should thus
be fitted more and more fully to refiect,, throughout endless
ages, the light of the knowledge of His
glory."—"Education,"
page 22.
15.
Is it too late now to apply the principles of the Eden
plan of education?
Answer:
"God's Word must be made the
groundwork and subject matter of education."—"Counsels
to
Teachers," page 16.
"As soon as the holy pair transgressed
the law of the Most High, the brightness from the face of
God departed from the face of nature The earth is now
marred and defiled by sin. Yet even in its blighted state,
much that is beautiful remains. God's object lessons are
not obliterated; rightly understood, nature speaks of her
Creator."—"Christ's
Object Lessons," page 18.
"Time is too
short now to accomplish that which might have been done in
past generations. But even in these last days we can do
much to correct the existing evils in the education of youth.
And because time is short, we should be in earnest, and work
zealously to give the young an education consistent with our
faith."—"Testimonies for the Church," volume 6, pages
179, 180.
16.
On what promise of the Lord may we still depend?
Ps. 32:8.
Lessons We Can Learn
1. God's Word is His principal means of revealing His
will and doing His work. It was the agency used in creation;
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and in its written form, it is the most profitable for study in
all literature.
2.
God's works are another means of expressing His
thought, of revealing Himself,—His wisdom, His might, and
His love. "While the Bible should hold the first place in the
education of children and youth, the book of nature is next in
importance."—"Special
Testimonies on Education," page 58.
3.
The holy pair were created in the image of God—in
physical, mental, and spiritual likeness to Him, clothed in the
garments of His glory. This image was to be more fully re-
vealed as time went on.
4.
In Eden, God and the angels instructed and communed
with Adam and Eve by word of mouth, face to face; but the
Eden pair learned of God through His works also. "The
book of nature, which spread its living lessons before them,
afforded an exhaustless source of instruction and delight.
SCHOOL, SOONAN, KOREA
On every leaf of the forest and stone of the mountains, in
every shining star, in earth and sea and sky, God's name was
written. With both the animate and the inanimate creation,—
with leaf and flower and tree, and with every living creature,
from the leviathan of the waters to the mote in the sun-
beam,—the dwellers in Eden held converse, gathering from
each the secrets of its life. God's glory in the heavens, the
innumerable worlds in their orderly revolutions, 'the balanc-
ings of the clouds,' the mysteries of light and sound, of day
and night,—all were objects of study by the pupils of earth's
first
school."—"Education," page 21.
5.
The Garden of Eden was a perfect expression of God's
ideal for the Christian home and school. Education was not
separated from the home, nor from the daily work, but was
the whole aim of existence, bound up intimately with every
activity of life itself.
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Lesson
3-E
du cation and Redemption
JULY 17, 1920
Daily Study Outline
1.
Result of mingling good and evil
Ques. 1,2
2.
Results of confusing good with evil
Ques. 3-7
3.
Adam's hope after sinning
Ques. 8,9
4.
The earthy and the heavenly image
Ques.10-12
5.
Means of changing the image
Ques. 13, 14
6.
Common purpose of education and
redemption
Ques. 15, 16
7.
Review the lesson.
Questions
1.
What did God tell our first parents would be the result
if they partook of the forbidden tree? Gen. 2: 17.
2.
What would eating of this fruit add to the knowledge
of the transgressors?
Answer:
The knowledge of evil.
3.
How did the tempter subtly confuse good and evil in
his statement to Eve? Gen. 3: 5.
4.
How did Eve confuse good and evil in her view of the
matter? Verse 6.
5.
What evils resulted immediately from this confusion
and the consequent transgression? Verses 7-13.
6.
What results of sin did God predict for the future?
Verses 16-19.
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7.
Why was it necessary to drive Adam and Eve from
the garden? Verses 22, 23.
8.
Though now under sentence of death through sin, what
hope was held out to them in Christ when the curse was pro-
nounced on Satan? Verse 15.
9.
What promise is made to every sinner? 1 Cor. 15: 22.
10.
In whose image was Adam created? Gen. 1: 27.
11.
What image do all sinners bear? 1 Cor. 15: 49,
first part.
12.
When made alive in Christ, what image shall we bear?
Verse 49, last part.
13.
Through what means is this change in image brought
about? Gal. 2:20; 3: 13; 2 Cor. 3: 18.
14.
What, then, is the object of redemption?
Answer:
To restore in man the image of God that he lost by sin.
15.
What is the true object of Christian education?
Answer:
"The true object of education is to restore the image
of God in the
soul."-"Patriarchs and Prophets," page 595.
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16. What, then, is the relation of Christian education to
redemption?
Lessons We Can Learn .
1.
God's original purpose for man was that he should
have knowledge of only the good. As his knowledge of good,
of God, should increase, he would grow more Godlike in
character.
2.
By partaking of the forbidden tree—forbidden so as to
prevent the learning of evil—man added the knowledge of
evil to his knowledge of good. •
3.
Henceforth it was easy to confuse good and evil. In
fact, Eve was enticed to a knowledge of. evil by what she
mistook for good, and Adam joined her in transgression
because of a mistaken view of the highest good—he would
rather die in transgression with Eve than live in righteous-
ness without her.
4.
The fruits of evil followed immediately upon the knowl-
edge of evil: sense of guilt and shame, laying blame for
wrongdoing upon others, insinuation that even God was to
blame, loss of access to the tree of life, exile from their
happy home.
5.
Though it was necessary to pronounce judgment on
the sinner; God mingled that judgment with mercy in the
promise of a Redeemer to restore the lost estate.
6.
The object of redemption is to renew in man the image
of God in which he was created. The object of Christian
education is identical with that of redemption: "To restore
the image of God in the soul."
7.
CONCLUSION:
"In the highest sense, the work of edu-
cation and the work of redemption are one; for in education,
as in redemption, 'other foundation can no man lay than that
is laid, which is Jesus Christ.'
"—"Education," page SO.
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Lesson 4—Education in the Home
JULY 24, 1920
Daily Study Outline
1.
Education in the Eden home
Ques. 1,2
2.
Sons of God and sons of men
Ques. 3-7
3.
Parental obligation
Ques. 3,9
4.
Examples of home education
Qu?.s. 10-13
5.
Time to begin Christian education
Ques. 14,15
0. Promise to parents
Ques.
16,17
7. Review the lesson.
Questions
1.
Where did our first parents have a home? Gen. 2:
8, 15, 18.
•
2.
Who visited and instructed them from time to time?
Gen. 3: 8. "The holy pair were not only children under the
fatherly care of God, but students receiving instruction from
the all-wise Creator. They were visited by angels, and were
granted communion with their Maker, with no obscuring veil
between."—"Patriarchs and Prophets," page 50.
3.
After Eden, what indicates a turning of sinners to
God? Gen. 4: 26, margin.
4.
By what name did they call themselves? Gen. 6:2,
first phrase.
5.
Who are in reality sons of God? John 1: 12.
6.
By what do the sons of God live? Matt. 4: 4.
7.
Where should the Word of the Lord be cherished?
Deut. 6: 6; Ps. 119: 11.
8.
What obligation is laid upon parents? Deut. 6: 7;
4: 9, 10.
9.
What example of parental faithfulness is mentioned
in the Old Testament? Gen. 18: 19.
10.' Who was the "fruitful bough" among Jacob's twelve
sons? Gen. 49: 22. (Joseph dwelt in his father's tent till
seventeen years of age [Gen. 37: 2], and was doubtless the
most carefully taught of his children.)
11.
What proved an anchor to Moses when he was tempted
with worldly honors?
Answer:
It was doubtless the faithful
teaching by his mother during the first twelve years of his
childhood. See Ex. 2: 1-10.
12.
What enabled Daniel to prove loyal to God amid the
temptations and luxuries of the Babylonian court?
Answer:
His early education in Judea. See Dan. 1: 3, 4.
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13.
Give a New Testament example of the influence of a
Christian home on the young. 2 Tim. 1: 5.
14.
To what is Timothy's success as a minister of God
attributed? 2 Tim. 3: 15.
15.
What is every youth commended to do? Eccl. 12: 1.
16.
What assurance is given to parents on the result of
faithfully training their children? Prov. 22: 6.
17.
What pictures of the Christian home does the psalm-
ist give? Ps. 128: 1-4; 144: 12.
Lessons We Can Learn
1.
In their Eden home, our first parents were taught di-
rectly by teachers from heaven. "In His interest for His
children, our heavenly Father personally directed their edu-
cation. Often they were visited by His messengers, the holy
angels, and from them received counsel and instruction.
Often as they walked in the garden in the cool of the day
they heard the voice of God, and face to face held communion
with the Eternal."—"Education,"
page 21.
2.
After the fall, people were of two classes: sons of God
and sons of men, according to their acceptance or rejection
of the plan of redemption. A true son of God is one who
accepts Christ and lives by the Word of God.
3.
In the home, parents are enjoined to teach the Word
of God "diligently" to their children morning and evening,
all through the day, and every day.
4.
Abraham is commended for his faithfulness in main-
taining an altar of worship, and teaching his children and
household to the number of a thousand souls. Its influence
extended in a marked way over three generations following.
5.
Joseph's remarkable record of integrity and ability
was owing largely to his early teaching in his father's tent.
While he was on his way to Egypt to be sold as a slave, "his
thoughts turned to his father's God. In his childhood he had
been taught to love and fear Him. Often in his fathel's tent
he had listened to the story of the vision that Jacob saw as
he fled from his home an exile and a fugitive. He had been
told of the Lord's promises to Jacob, and how they had been
fulfilled,—how, in the hour of need, the angels of God had
come to instruct, comfort, and protect him. And he had
learned of the love of God in providing for men a Redeemer.
Now all these precious lessons came vividly before him.
Joseph believed that the God of his fathers would be his
God. He then and there gave himself fully to the Lord, and
he prayed that the Keeper of Israel would be with him in
the land of his exile. His soul thrilled with the high resolve
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to prove himself true to God,—under all circumstances to
act as became a subject of the King of heaven. He would
serve the Lord with undivided heart; he would meet the
trials of his lot with fortitude, and perform every duty with
fidelity."—"Patriarchs and
Prophets," pages 213, 214-
6.
After Moses had been given into his mother's hands
by Pharaoh's daughter to be nurtured, "she faithfully im-
proved her opportunity to educate her child for God. She
felt confident that he had been preserved for some great work,
and she knew that he must soon be given up to his royal
mother, to be surrounded with influences that would tend
to lead him away from God. All this rendered her more
diligent and careful in his instruction than in that of her
other children. She endeavored to imbue his mind with the
fear of God and the love of truth and justice, and earnestly
prayed that he might be preserved from every corrupting
influence. She showed him the folly and sin of idolatry, and
early taught him to bow down and pray to the living God,
who alone could hear him and help him in every emergency.
"She kept the boy as long as she could, but was obliged
to give him up when he was about twelve years old. From
his humble cabin home he was taken to the royal palace, to
the daughter of Pharaoh, 'and he became her son.' Yet even
here he did not lose the impressions received in childhood.
The lessons learned at his mother's side could not be for-
gotten. They were a shield from the pride, the infidelity,
and the vice that flourished amid the splendor of the court."—
Id., pages 243,
244.
7.
Daniel's fidelity to God in a heathen court, is traceable
to the influences that molded his character in his Judean
home. "Joseph and Daniel proved themselves true to the
principles of their early training. . . . The same mighty
truths that were revealed through these men, God desires
to reveal through the youth and the children of to-day."—
"Education," pages 56, 57.
8.
"Unfeigned faith" on the part of the grandmother and
the mother may pass on to the son also, as it did to Timothy,
because of his knowing the Scriptures from his childhood.
9.
Let every youth remember his Creator while he is yet
young, and let every parent train up each child in the way
he should go.
10.
Christian education in the home is the foundation of
the integrity and usefulness of son or daughter wherever
the providence of God may lead.
"Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are
white already to harvest."
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Lesson 5—Schools of the Prophets
JULY 31, 1920
Daily Study Outline
1.
What is a prophet?
Ques. 1
2.
Samuel as a prophet
Ques. 2,3
3.
Spiritual decline in Israel
Ques. 4,5
4.
Cause of this decline
Ques. 6-10
5.
Schools of the prophets a remedy
Ques. 11-17
6.
How these schools were conducted
Ques. 18-21
7.
Review the lesson.
Questions
1.
What is a prophet? 1 Sam. 9: 9. A "seer" is a see-er,
one who, by spiritual endowment, sees deeply into things past
or things present or things future. A "prophet," a later
name for "seer," is a for-speaker, a mouthpiece of God. See
Amos 7: 12.
2.
Who was called in his childhood to become a prophet?
1 Sam. 3: 2-4, 20.
3.
What part did his mother have in his consecration to
the Lord? 1 Sam. 1: 20, 27, 28.
4.
What was the spiritual situation in Israel at that time?
1 Sam. 3: 1; 2: 12, 17; 3: 12, 13; 4: 21, 22.
5.
What was one of the chief causes of this spiritual de-
cline? 1 Sam. 3: 12, 13.
Answer:
Unfaithfulness of parents
in the instruction and discipline of their children.
6.
What special command had been given to parents just
before Israel entered Canaan? Deut. 11: 18-21.
7.
What was the result of disregarding this command?
Answer:
"Through unfaithfulness in the home, and idolatrous
influences without, many of the Hebrew youth received an
education differing widely from that which God had planned
for them. They learned the ways of the heathen."—"Edu-
cation," pages 45, 46.
8.
Where did Samuel live? 1 Sam. 7: 17.
9.
Where was the ark of the Lord? Verses 1, 2.
10.
What did Samuel teach the people? With what re-
sult? Verses 3, 4.
11.
What further provision was made for instruction?
Answer:
"Further provision was made for the instruction
of the young, by the establishment of the schools of the
prophets."—"Patriarchs
and Prophets," page 593.
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12.
Where
.
were these schools located?
Answer:
"In
Samuel's day there were two of these schools,—one at Ramah,
the home of the prophet, and the other at Kirjath-jearim,
where the ark then was. Others were established in later
times."—/b.
13.
Who attended these schools?
Answer:
"If a youth
desired to search deeper into the truths of the Word of God,
and to seek wisdom from above, that he might become a
teacher in Israel, these schools were open to him."—Ib.
14.
What were these students called?
Answer:
"Samuel
gathered companies of young men who were pious, intelligent,
and studious. These were called the sons of the prophets."—
Ib. See also 2 Kings 2: 3, 5, 7, 15.
15.
Who were the instructors in these schools?
Answer:
"The instructors were men not only well versed in divine
truth, but those who had themselves enjoyed communion with
God, and had received the special endowment of His
Spirit."—Ib.
16.
What were the chief subjects of study?
Answer:
"The chief subjects of study in these schools were the law
of God, with the instructions given to Moses, sacred history,
sacred music, and poetry."—Ib.
17.
What was the grand object of all study?
Answer:
"In those schools of the olden time it was the grand object of
all study to learn the will of God, and man's duty toward
Him."—/b.
18.
How did the students and many of the teachers sup-
port themselveS?
Answer:
"The pupils of these schools sus-
tained themselves by their own labor in tilling the soil, or in
some mechanical employment. . . . Many also of the
teachers supported themselves by manual labor."—"Educa-
tion," page 47.
19.
What was the spiritual tone of these schools?
An-
swer:
"A spirit of devotion was cherished. Not only were
students taught the duty of prayer, but they were taught
how to pray, how to approach their Creator, how to exercise
faith in Him, and how to understand and obey the teachings
of His Spirit. Sanctified intellects brought forth from the
treasure house of God, things new and old, and the Spirit of
God was manifested in prophecy and sacred song."--"Pa
triarchs and Prophets," page 594.
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20.
What is the true object of education?
Answer:
"The
true object of education is to restore the image of God in
the soul."—Id.,
page 595.
21.
What were the results of the work done in the schools
of the prophets?
Answer:
"These schools 'proved to be one
of the means most effective in promoting that righteousness
which `exalteth a nation.' In no small degree they aided in
laying the foundation of that marvelous prosperity which
distinguished the reigns of David and Solomon."—"Educa-
tion,"
pages 47, 48.
Lessons We Can Learn
1.
A seer is one who sees deeply into the things of God,
past, present, and future.
2.
A prophet is one who speaks for God, in reference to
things past, present, or future.
3.
In the fuller sense, a prophet is divinely appointed to
his work. In a modified sense, a prophet is divinely called
to do the work of teaching. See "Education," page 46.
4.
What any one can do for God depends much upon the
kind of education he receives in childhood and youth.
5.
Parents have the usefulness and destiny of their chil-
dren largely in their own hands.
6.
The great danger of youth is that they will "learn the
ways of the heathen" instead of the ways of God.
7.
In addition to a Christian home, the greatest safeguard
for our children is to send them to a school whose avowed
object is to "restore the image of God in the soul."
Lesson 6—Results of True Education in Israel
AUGUST
7, 1920
Daily Study Outline
1.
Re-education of Israel after leaving
Egypt
Ques. 1, 2
2.
Education of Moses as leader
Ques. 3-6
3.
Secret of Joseph's power
Ques. 7-9
4.
The testimony of David
Ques. 10-13
5.
Education of Solomon
Ques. 14-17
6.
Kind of education for the young
Ques. 18-20
7.
Review the lesson.
Questions
1. After
the deliverance of Israel from Egypt, by what
primary
means did God purpose to educate them away from
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the corruption of their bondage, to a new spiritual life?
Ex. 25: 8.
2.
What ideals of character would His presence among
them reveal? Ex. 34: 6.
3.
What was the attitude of Moses, the leader of Israel,
toward God's purpose? Verses 8, 9.
4.
What other means did God use to educate both the
people and their children? Deut. 11: 18-21.
5.
What opportunity had Moses himself had to be taught
in this way? Ex. 2: 5-10. "Only twelve years did he [Moses]
spend with his Hebrew kindred; but during these years was
laid the foundation of his greatness; it was laid by the hand
of one little known to fame. . . . Those principles of truth
that were the burden of his mother's teaching and the lesson
of her life, no after influence could induce Moses to renounce."
—"Education," page 61.
(Read "Patriarchs and Prophets,"
pages 243, 244.)
6.
What was the result at a critical hour in his later life?
Heb. 11: 24-26.
7.
How was Joseph taught in his youth? Gen. 37: 1-3.
"In his childhood, Joseph had been taught the love and fear
of God. Often in his father's tent, under the Syrian stars, he
had been told the story of the night vision at Bethel, of the
ladder from heaven to earth, and the descending and ascend-
ing angels, and of Him who from the throne above revealed
Himself to Jacob. He had been told the story of the conflict
beside the Jabbok, when, renouncing cherished sins, Jacob
stood conqueror, and received the title of a prince with God.
"A shepherd boy, tending his father's flocks, Joseph's pure
and simple life had favored the development of both physical
and mental power. By communion with God through nature
and the study of the great truths handed down as a sacred
trust from father to son, he had gained strength of mind,
and firmness of principle."—"Education,"
page 52.
(Read "Patriarchs and Prophets," page 213, last para-
graph and one following.)
8.
How did Joseph's acquaintance with God become ap-
parent in the house of Potiphar? In prison? Gen. 39: 2-6,
20-23.
9.
How did God use Joseph as a blessing to Egypt and to
the house of Jacob?
Answer:
Call up the leading events in
the life of Joseph as prime minister of Egypt, and read his
own interpretation of his sojourn in Egypt, in Gen. 50: 18-20.
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10.
How does David testify he was taught from his
youth? Ps. 71: 5, 17.
11.
Under what environment did David grow up? 1 Sam.
16: 11. (Read "Patriarchs and Prophets," pages 643, 644.)
12.
What testimony did the Lord bear concerning David?
Acts 13: 22.
13.
What was the result of David's being taught of God
from his youth, according to his own "last words"? 2 Sam.
23: 1-5, R. V.
14.
What charge did David give to Solomon just before
his death? 1 Kings 2: 1-3.
15.
What did Solomon as a young man treasure above all
else? 1 Kings 3: 5-14, especially verse 9.
16.
What great work for God crowned Solomon's reign?
1 Kings 8: 13, 20.
17.
To what glory had the kingdom of David been elevated
in Solomon's reign? 2 Chron. 9: 1, 5-8, 22, 23.
18.
What does Solomon declare to be the key to wisdom
and understanding? Prov. 9: 10.
19.
In what way, according to Solomon, can the young
obtain understanding and knowledge? Prov. 2: 1-6. Memo-
rize this passage.
20.
What result is assured to those who thus strive after
true knowledge? Verses 9-12.
Lessons We Can Leain
1.
The dwelling of God in the heart is the first essential
to true education.
2.
Keeping the Word of God in the mind, by every device
possible, is another great essential.
3.
Teaching the things of God diligently from childhood
is the best assurance that crises in later life will be success-
fully met.
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4.
As the basis for Moses' great choice between the throne
of earth's mightiest kingdom and suffering affliction with the
people of God was laid in the first twelve years of his life,
by his faithful mother-teacher, so should every parent see
that his children are kept under Christian instruction during
these vital, formative years.
5.
As Joseph, listening in his father's tent to the rehearsal
of God's dealings with His people, developed such confidence
in God, by 'the .time he was seventeen, that he passed the
terrible test of being sold into slavery and thrown into prison
unjustly in a strange and heathen land, so may our sons and
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daughters be established in faith if they have been diligently
taught of God from childhood.
6.
As David learned of God in the simple surroundings
of pastoral life in his boyhood, and as he used his wonderful
skill in music and poetry to give expression to the melody in
his soul as he caught new glimpses of God, so may every
youth learn of God, and devote his talent to the honor of
God, if he is kept under environment and instruction of the
right kind.
7.
As Solomon, by the time he was twenty, had the dis-
cernment to choose an understanding heart above all that
wealth, power, and honor offered him, so may our maturing
youth come out of our homes and schools, by the same age,
with their choice fixed upon the wisdom and knowledge which
Solomon commends, if they are led by their parents and
teachers to cry out for and seek after the knowledge that
"passeth understanding."
Lesson
7—The
Education of Jesus
AUGUST
14, 1920
Daily Study Outline
1.
Why and how Jesus came to earth
Ques. 1-4
2.
Jesus' development as a child
Ques. 5-8
,3. Educational environment of Jesus
Ques. 9-12
4.
Effect of Jesus' contact with others
Ques.13-16
5.
Source of what Jesus learned and taught Ques. 17, 18
6.
The knowledge Jesus' followers should
seek
Ques. 19, 20
7.
Review the lesson.
Questions
1.
For what purpose did Jesus come into the world?
Matt. 1:21; John 10: 10; Isa. 61: 1-3.
2.
In what way did He come? John 1: 14.
3.
Why did Jesus come in the way He did? Rom. 8: 3;
Gal. 3: 13; Heb. 2: 9, 10.
4.
In what spirit did Jesus take up the work He came
to do? John 5:30, 31; 8: 28, 54.
5.
What is the first record we have of Jesus' development
as a child? Luke 2: 40.
6.
At what age did He first say He was about His Fa-
ther's business? Verses 42, 49.
7.
What is said further of Jesus' development after this?
Verse 52.
8.
In what directions did He develop?
Answer:
In wis-
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dom-mentally; in stature-physically; in favor with God-
spiritually; in favor with man-socially.
9.
In what kind of place was He born? Verse 7.
10.
In what kind of place did He live? John 1: 46.
11.
What was His occupation? Mark 6: 3.
12.
How did He relate Himself to His earthly parents?
Luke 2: 51.
13.
What impression did Jesus make in His first interview
with learned men, when only twelve years old? Verses 46, 47.
14.
How did He impress officers of the law who sought
to arrest Him? John 7: 46.
15.
What effect did His communion with two of the dis-
ciples have upon them? Luke 24: 32.
16.
Did Jesus attend the schools of His day? John 7: 15.
17.
What was the source of what He taught? John 8: 28;
12: 49. "Of Myself" means
"from
Myself as a source," the
same as when Jesus says, "The Son can do nothing
of
Himself."
18.
What did John the beloved disciple, in after years,
say he himself taught? 1 John 1: 1, 3.
19.
Wherein does the wisdom of the world fail? '1
Cor. 1:21.
20.
After what knowledge should every follower of Jesus
especially seek? Jer. 9: 23, 24.
Lessons We Can Learn
1.
Jesus had a special and important work to do.
2.
As He was to work for humanity, He came in the form
of humanity, identified Himself with humanity, and gave
Himself up to saving humanity.
3.
He was born in poverty, lived in a place of no repute,
was subject to human parents.
4.
As a child, He developed in the various ways other
children do-physically, mentally, spiritually, socially.
5.
When about His Father's business, He astonished the
learned doctors of law with His understanding and answers
at twelve years of age, amazed and unnerved officers of the
law with what He said, caused the hearts of disciples to burn
within them while He communed with them.
6.
Jesus never attended any of the schools of the time,
yet He was a master in letters, powerful in speech, a marvel
in reaching the heart.
7.
As the world by wisdom knows not God, we are not to
glory in any wisdom, might, or learning of this world, but
rather glory in understanding and knowing God.
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Lesson 8—The School of Christ
AuGust 21, 1920
Daily Study Outline
1.
The Teacher sent from God
Ques. 1-4
2.
'Where Jesus' teaching was done
Ques. 5
3.
Kind of men Jesus called and taught
Ques. 6,7
4.
Jesus' methods of teaching
Ques. S-10
5.
Jesus' love for His disciples
Ques.11-13
6.
Preparation of the disciples for service
Ques. 14-16
7.
Review the lesson.
Questions
1. What was one capacity in which Jesus came to earth?
John 3: 2.
2. Who sent Him into the world? John 17: 18, first part.
3. What may He therefore be properly called?
Answer:
A Teacher sent from God.
4. How is Jesus' work on earth frequently characterized?
Matt. 4: 23; 9: 35; 11: 1. The term "teach" alone is used
of His work more than thirty times in the four Gospels, be-
sides His being called by terms equivalent to "teacher" more
than fifty times.
5. Where was His teaching largely done? Matt. 5: 1;
13: 1; Luke 5:3; 6:17; 7:36; 9:10; 10:38; 14:1; 20:1;
John 10: 23. Jesus taught much out of doors, amid scenes
of nature, but also in the homes of the people, and wherever
the people resorted.
6. Whom did He specially call as learners, or disciples?
John 1: 43; Matt. 4: 18-22. Others were called, making
twelve in all.
7. What kind of men were they? Matt. 4: 18; 9: 9.
"Jesus chose unlearned fishermen because they had not been
schooled in the traditions and erroneous customs of their
time. They were men of native ability, and they were humble
and teachable."
—
"The
Desire of Ages," page 250.
S.
In what ways did Jesus teach? Matt. 5: 2 (by word
of mouth) ; 9: 35 (by observation) ; 13: 3 (in parables) ;
John 13: 15 (by example) ; Matt. 16: 13; John 21:15 and
onward (by questioning) ; Matt. 16: 23 (by rebuke) ; John
14: 1-3 (by comfort and assurance).
9. How did He train the disciples in service? Matt. 14:
19; 10: 5, 6, 16; Luke 10: 1.
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10.
What success did Jesus have in teaching His disciples?
John 17: 12.
11.
How much did Jesus love His disciples? John 15: 9.
12.
How did He show the extent of His love? John
10: 11, 15.
13.
How did He commend His love to the disciples?
John 15: 13.
14.
For what great work had Jesus been preparing His
disciples? John 20: 21.
15.
What special endowment did He give them? Verse 22.
16.
What is the record of the apostles and others after
the ascension and Pentecost? Acts 8: 4.
Lessons We Can Learn
1.
Jesus came into the world as a teacher sent from God.
2.
He chose men of humble occupation, native ability, and
teachable spirit, to be His disciples, and kept them in train-
ing for about three and a half years, preparing them to carry
on the work He began.
3.
These disciples had not been schooled in the traditions
and customs of their time, and were "men whom He could
educate for His work."—"The
Desire of Ages," page 250.
4.
He taught them pure truth by precept, by parable, by
observation, by example, and by experience in service under
His guidance.
5.
He loved them fervently in spite of their faults and
errors, even to the point of laying down His life for them.
6.
He appointed them His successors in the work of the
gospel.
7.
They received the Holy Spirit, and went everywhere
preaching the Word.
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Thirteenth Sabbath Offering
September
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Lesson
9-The
School of the Apostles
AUGUST
28, 1920
Daily Study Outline
1.
Commissioning of the
apostles
(Wes.
1-4
2.
Witnessing for Christ
Ques. 5-7
3.
Changes wrought in Peter under Christ Ques. 8,9
4.
The transformation of John and Philip
Ques. 10-12
5.
The education of Paul
Ques. 13-19
0. Discipline in the school of Christ
Ques.
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7. Review the lesson.
Questions
1. What special appointment, after His resurrection, did
Jesus make with the disciples? Matt: 26: 32; 28: 7, 16.
2..At this appointed meeting, what commission did Jesus
give His disciples? Matt. 28: 18-20; Mark 16: 15.
3.
What were the disciples called after this? Acts 1: 2.
4.
What further instruction did the apostles have from
the great Teacher after the resurrection? Verse 3.
5.
What command did Jesus give the apostles pertaining
to the final act in their preparation as witnesses for Him?
Verse 4.
6.
After receiving the promise, where were they to be
witnesses? Verse 8.
7.
How did the work of the apostles in "the field" con-
firm the efficiency of their education in the school of Christ?
Mark 16: 20; Acts 2:41-43, 46, 47.
8.
What wonderful change had been wrought in Peter?
Matt. 4: 18, 19; Acts 1: 15; 2: 14, 37-40.
9.
Point out two steps in the fulfillment of Jesus' promise
to Peter at his call. Matt. 4: 19; Luke 5: 4-10; Acts 2: 41.
10.
What marked change had John undergone? Mark
3: 17. "Evil temper, revenge, the spirit of criticism, were
all in the beloved disciple. He was proud, and ambitious to
be the first in the kingdom of
God."-"The Desire of Ages,"
page 295.
See John 21: 20-24; Rev. 1: 1, 9, 10.
11.
Note the change in Philip. John 6: 5, 7; 14: 8, 9. He
was "slow of heart, and inclined to
doubt."-"The, Desire of
Ages," page 296.
See Acts 8: 26-40; 21: 8, 9.
12.
Who was last to be called as an apostle? Acts 9: 15;
22: 21; 1 Cor. 1: 1; 15: 8.
13.
What had been Paul's education? Acts 22: 3; 5: 34.
14.
What was the effect of this education? Acts 26: 4, 5.
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15.
After Paul's conversion, how did he prepare himself
for entering upon the work of his calling? Gal. 1: 15-18.
16.
How did Paul 'esteem himself and his labor? 1 Cor.
15: 9, 10.
17.
Upon what did he depend for success as a minister?
Eph. 3: 7, 8.
18.
What kept Paul from self-exaltation? 2 Cor. 12: 7.
19.
How did he relate himself to this infirmity? Verses 8, 9.
20.
Under what discipline in the school of Christ may all
workers be strong? Verse 10.
Lessons We Can Learn
1.
The worker for God must have "many infallible proofs"
that Jesus ever lives to make intercession for him, and will
be with him always in all his labor.
2.
He must receive "the power of the Holy Ghost coming
upon him." Acts 1: 8, margin.
3.
He is then ready to be a witness of Jesus "unto the
uttermost part of the earth."
4.
His work in the field will confirm the efficiency of his
preparation in the school of Christ.
5.
The marvelous changes wrought in the lives of Peter,
John, and Philip, are examples of what learning in the
school of the apostles taught by Jesus, accomplished, and of
what can be accomplished now if the principles of Christian
education are faithfully carried out.
6.
Though sincere in it all himself, Paul was wrongly
educated, and consequently became a persecutor of the true
people of God.
7.
When Christ was revealed to Paul, he immediately be-
gan to preach Jesus, till his life was imperiled. Then he
went into solitude "to be alone with God, to search his own
heart, to deepen his repentance, and to prepare himself by
prayer and study to engage in a work which appeared to
him too great and too important for him to undertake."—
"Life of Paul," page 33.
8.
Paul esteemed himself the least of the apostles, and
unfit to be an apostle, because of sin; but he became chief
of the apostles, by the grace of God, and by rejoicing in the
infirmity which kept him from self-exaltation, that the power
Jf Christ might rest upon him.
9.
Sitting at the feet of the greatest teachers of the day,
even professed religious teachers, will not of itself fit young
men and women for fruitful Christian service. There are
some who may even array them against the true cause of God.
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10. The sure way is to sit at the feet of the Master
Teacher, learning in the school of Christ, as His disciples,
receiving the Holy Spirit, as His apostles, then go forth every-
where preaching the Word.
Lesson 10—The School in the Advent
Movement
SEPTEMBER 4, 1920
Daily Study Outline
1.
Jesus' love for His work
2.
The teaching and works of Jesus
3.
The Holy Spirit as teacher
4.
Preparation for the second advent
5.
Kind of workmen needed
8. Personal preparation of the worker
7. Review the lesson.
Questions
1.
How is the work of Jesus while on earth characterized?
Acts 1: 1.
2.
What did Jesus say it was His daily food to do?
John 4: 34.
3.
How did Jesus express the intimate association of the
Father and Himself in ail His work? John 5: 17, 19. Lit-
erally these verses read: "My Father is working up till the
present moment and I am working. . . . The Son is not able
to be doing anything of Himself but what He sees the Father
doing; for whatsoever things He may be doing, these also
the Son is likewise doing."
4.
What does Jesus say of His teaching? John 8: 28,
last part; 14: 10, 24; 17: 8.
5.
What kind of works is the believer to do? John 14: 12.
6.
Who succeeds Jesus as teacher? Verse 26, first part.
7.
What does the Holy Spirit teach? Verse 26, last part;
John 16: 13.
8.
Whom does the Holy Spirit teach? Same verses; John
20: 21, 22. (In a special sense, the Spirit teaches those who
are sent.)
9.
Whom are the sent ones—the missionaries—to teach?
Matt. 28: 19, 20.
10.
How long is their teaching to continue? Verse 20,
last part.
Ques. 1-3
Ques.
4,5
Ques. 6-11
Ques. 12,13
Ques. 14-18
Ques. 19,20
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11.
What takes place at the end of the world? John 14:
2, 3; Acts 1: 11.
12.
What work must be done to prepare for the second
advent? Matt. 24: 14; Rev. 14: 6-14.
13.
What people are to do this work? Rev. 14: 12; 12:
17; 19: 10.
14.
What kind of workmen should the remnant people
study to be? 2 Tim. 2: 15.
15.
What are they commanded to teach and to preach?
Deut. 6: 6-9; 2 Tim. 4: 1, 2.
16.
What then must be their chief study, in school and out?
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17. What is the Word able to do in the personal life?
Ps. 119: 11, 105, 140; 2 Tim. 3: 15.
18.
What is the Holy Scripture able to do for the gospel
worker? 2 Tim. 3: 16, 17.
19.
What personal work must every man do before he can
become a vessel meet for the Master's use? 2 Tim. 2: 20, 21.
20.
What part may the Christian school act in the advent
movement, to hasten the finishing of the work?
Lessons We Can Learn
1.
As Jesus' work was both to do and to teach, so are we to
do what we teach, practice what we preach, that we may teach
through doing, and preach through practicing. Living like
this is more to be esteemed than necessary food. Job 23: 12.
2.
I can do all things in Him that strengthens me—the
Father working hitherto and I working.
3.
Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit as His personal
representative, to teach us all things and to guide us into all
truth; but He ordained that we receive the Holy Spirit, and
that He teach through us. On this condition, Jesus sends
us into all the world to teach all nations and preach the gos-
pel to every creature.
4.
Jesus through Paul bids us study to become workmen
that need not be ashamed, vessels unto honor, meet for the
Master's use, thoroughly furnished unto every good work.
5.
The Scriptures must be our chief study, in school and
out; for they are able to make us wise unto our own salva-
tion and unto the salvation of others.
6.
The Christian school is one of the chief agencies to save
our children from the world, and to furnish the advent move-
ment with laborers for the finishing of the work.
"Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will
send forth laborers into His harvest."
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Lesson 11-The Christian School of To-Day
SEPTEMBER
11, 1920
Daily Study Outline .
1.
True basis of wisdom and knowledge
Ques. 1-4
2.
Responsibility for teaching the young
Ques. 5,6
3.
Training of teachers and workers
Ques. 7,8
4.
Conditions in society and the schools
Ques. 9-11
5.
Warnings against false teachings
Ques. 12-16
6.
Kinds of teaching needed by young
men and women
Ques. 17-19
7.
Review the lesson.
Questions
1.
Where do true wisdom and knowledge begin? Ps.
111: 10; Prov. 1: 7.
2.
What is the fear of the Lord? Prov. 8: 13.
3.
What is the true basis of understanding? Prov. 9: 10,
last part; Job 28: 28.
4.
How do wisdom and understanding grow? Deut. 4:
5, 6; Eph. 4: 15; 1 Cor. 1: 30.,
5.
How early in life should the Word of the Lord be
taught? 2 Tim. 3: 15; Ps. 71: 17.
6.
What is the responsibility of parents and teachers of
the young in this respect? Deut. 4: 9, 10.
7.
What scripture expresses the great need to-day for
training of teachers? 2 Tim. 2: 2.
8.
What scriptures suggest the importance of Bible study
in training schools for gospel workers? Verse 15; 2 Tim.
3:16, 17.
9.
What conditions in society in the last days emphasize
the necessity of schools that teach pure truth? 2 Tim. 3:
1-5, 7; 4: 3, 4.
10.
Against what kind of teaching are we warned? 1
Tim. 1: 3-7; 2 Tim. 2: 23; Titus 3: 9.
11.
Of what three types of subtle and insidious teaching
must we beware, especially in the schools of to-day? Col. 2•: 8.
12.
Through Paul's instruction to Timothy, against what
attractive kind of teaching are young men of to-day warned?
1 Tim. 6: 20.
13.
Why is Paul so earnest about the matter? Verse 21.
14.
To what should every young man and woman hold
fast? Titus 1: 9, first part.
15.
Why is it important to do this? Verse 9, last part,
and verse 10.
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16.
What is the only safe thing to study and teach?
Titus 2: 1.
17.
What kind of teaching do young women need?
Verses 4, 5.
18.
What are young men exhorted to be and do? Verses 6-8.
19.
What should be the great central theme of the teach-
ing in the Christian school of to-day? Verses 11-14.
Lessons We Can Learn
1.
Departing from evil is the beginning of wisdom and
true knowledge.
2.
Knowledge of the holy is the basis for understanding.
3.
Wisdom and understanding grow when the truth is
kept and taught in love. "Thy Word is truth."
SCHOOL, SHANGHAI, CHINA
4.
The Scriptures should be taught diligently and daily
by parents and by teachers of children.
5.
One large function of the school is to educate "faith-
ful men who shall be able to teach others also."
6.
The Christian schools of to-day should so teach that
they may furnish men of God for all kinds of good works.
7.
Conditions in society and in the popular schools call
loudly for a type of school that teaches pure truth—not
fables, not traditions of men, not rudiments of the world, not
philosophy and vain deceit, not science falsely so-called; for
all these cause many to err from the faith.
8.
Young men and women should be so taught that they
hold fast to sound doctrine, that they may be sober, chaste,
sincere, sound in speech, denying ungodliness and worldly
lusts, looking for the blessed hope and the glorious appear-
ing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
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Lesson 12---The School of the Hereafter
SEPTEMBER 18, 1920
Daily Study Outline
1.
Marring the image of God in man
fines. 1-3
2.
Christ's part and ours in the
restoration
Ques. 4-6
3.
Education a part of the process
Ques. 7, S
4.
Keeping our eyes on the true aims
Cities. 9-12
5.
Reward of living and laboring for
Christ
Ques. 13-17
6.
Gathering knowledge in the ages to
come
Ques. 15-20
7.
Review the lesson.
Questions
1.
How was man created in the beginning in his relation-
ship to God? Gen. 5: 1; 9: 6; 1 Cor. 11: 7.
2.
How did he lose this image of glory? Rom. 3: 23; 5: 12.
3.
In what way did Christ come to the rescue of the sin-
ner? Rom. 5:8.
4.
What is our part in the restoration to life and glory?
Rom. 6: 4-8.
5.
What is Christ's relation to the Father? Heb. 1: 3,
first part, A. R. V.
6.
How is our transformation into the glorious image of
God accomplished? 2 Cor. 3: 18. The expression "from
glory to glory" indicates a progressive change into the image
of God. This suggests an educational process. As the glory
of God shines forth in the study of His Word, His works, and
His ways, the student, by continued beholding, is changed
into the same image, reflecting the glory of his Maker, as
did Moses, by intimate and prolonged communion with God.
7.
How is the true educational process defined in the
Scriptures? 2 Cor. 4: 16.
Literally: "The inward man is being renewed day by day."
"The object of true education is to restore the image of God
in the soul."—Mrs.
E. G. White.
8.
What will this daily process in education work out
for us? Verse 17.
9.
On what must we keep our eyes? Why? Verse 18.
10.
What objective aim in education for service should
we keep in view? John 4: 34, 35.
11.
For what should we especially pray and educate our
youth? Matt. 9:37, 38.
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12.
As we study to live and labor for Christ, what hope
is held out before us? Titus 2: 13.
13.
What reward will Christ bring with Him? Matt. 16: 27.
14.
Can any man imagine the richness of the reward to
the faithful? 1 Cor. 2: 9.
15.
What are some of the things that we know? 1 John
3: 2; 2 Tim. 4: 8; Rev. 21: 4; 22: 1-5; Isa. 35: 1, 2, 5-10.
16.
What will be the occupation of the people in Eden re-
stored? Isa. 65: 17, 21, 22; 66: 22, 23.
17.
What will perpetuate life and increase knowledge?
Rev. 2 : 7; 22:2.
18.
What scriptures show that the gathering of knowl-
edge will continue throughout the ages to come? Eph. 1: 17,
18; 2: 6, 7.
19.
What will be the measure of that accumulating knowl-
edge? Eph. 3: 17-19.
20.
To whom will the redeemed give all the glory as the
ages roll on? Verses 20, 21.
Lessons We Can Learn
1.
Man was created in the image and likeness of God.
He was clothed in the glory of God.
2.
Man lost the glory of this image by sinning and com-
ing short of the glory of God. He was left naked, ashamed,
and lost.
3.
Christ came to man's rescue by giving His own glorious
life as a substitute, and lifted man up to sit with Him in
heavenly places. Man's part is to die with Him, and rise
with Him to walk in newness of life.
4.
Christ is the raying-forth of His Father's glory. By
beholding Him, we become changed into His likeness from
glory to glory. We see the glory of God revealed as we study
His Word, His works, and His ways. These should be the
chief studies in our preparation school here on earth.
5.
As we discover the love, wisdom, and power of God,
and study and meditate upon these, their glory is reflected
in our lives, and we long to go forth and reveal them to the
children of men sitting in darkness. We look on the field,
and offer ourselves as laborers to reap the ripening harvest,
and thus to hasten the coming of the Lord of the harvest.
6.
When He comes, He bestows the reward of the faith-
ful—far beyond anything we can now comprehend.
7.
The riches of God's grace and the glories of Eden re-
stored will be the science and the song and the study of the
redeemed through the ages as they roll ceaselessly on.
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Lesson 13—The Review
SEPTEMBER 25, 1920
EDUCATION AND LIFE—Lesson 1
Education is bound up with the life itself. Man was
created upright--like God. He was left free to choose good
or evil. As he chose, he was, he lived.
THE EDEN SCHOOL—Lesson 2
The Eden plan was education by living. What man saw,
what he ate, what he did, what he heard, what he thought,
what he was taught, were all a part of his education, 0.11 de-
signed to make him more Godlike.
EDUCATION AND REDEMPTION—Lesson 3
Re-education is the same as redemption. Man chose evil.
He was turned out of the Eden school to die. Jesus prom-
ised His life for man's. Man must learn his way back to
God's favor by a new and living way.
EDUCATION IN THE HOME—Lesson 4
Home is the first and best school. So it proved with
Joseph, and Moses, and Samuel, and Daniel, and Timothy.
SCHOOLS OF THE PROPHETS—LeSSOn 5
Schools of the prophets were a supplement to the home.
They were taught by men of learning and piety.
The students were intelligent, pious, and industrious.
The studies were Bible, sacred history, sacred music,
and poetry.
Teachers and students worked with their hands.
The students became teachers of others.
RESULTS OF TRUE EDUCATION IN ISRAEL—Lesson 6
Moses and Joseph were products of true education in
the home.
David and Solomon, specially taught at home,,and by the
Lord Himself, raised Israel to the greatest height of glory.
THE EDUCATION OF JESUS—Lesson
Jesus was taught by His mother, by the Scriptures, by
nature, by the Father. He never went to schools of the day,
but He spoke and taught as never man did.
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THE SCHOOL OF CHRIST—LeSSOn 8
The disciples were taught in the school of Christ.. They
were untaught at school, but were teachable, and so were
transformed in character and ability from fishers of fish to
fishers of men.
THE SCHOOL OF THE APOSTLES—LeSSOn 9
The school of the apostles was a graduate school. Men
who had been in the school of Christ for three years, went
on learning under the teaching of the Holy Spirit. Paul
came in late, but by special revelation and zeal, became chief
of the apostles.
THE SCHOOL IN THE ADVENT MOVEMENT—Lesson 10
This school is to prepare workmen that need not be
ashamed, who are to teach and preach the Word, which is
able to make men wise unto salvation, and prepare them to
meet their God.
THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF To-DAY—Lesson 11
Its characteristics:
The fear of the Lord is to pervade its work.
The Scriptures are to be taught from childhood.
Parents and teachers are to unite their efforts.
Teachers are to be developed.
All kinds of workers are to be trained.
Sound doctrine is to be taught.
•
Philosophy and vain deceit, traditions of men, rudiments
of the world, science falsely so called, are all to be kept out.
Young men and women must be taught to be sober, chaste,
sound of speech, denying worldly lusts, looking for *the
blessed hope.
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEREAFTER—LeSSOn 12
To make sure of the school of the hereafter for us, Christ
gave His life for the sinner, lived thirty-three years as a man
among men, trained His successors on the earth, went back
to heaven, will come again, take His children, and place them
in the school of the hereafter, where the science and song
of the redeemed will be their study and their joy through
endless ages.